She Took off Her Glasses and It Reminded Me of Red: May 2014

And MORE Shenanigans

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How I got from this...

To this...

Yep, my "Diary" read. By other people.

(Not really a diary because I also included some ideas about stuff, is that also a diary? I'm not really sure what a I still have some reflecting to do about this. (To be continued).

And then I made this text on canvas commentary:

Based off of... JEFF KOONS & his book The Jeff Koons Handbook

This book:

Some of the components of my work from the second project I made from Artists Under the Influence which consisted of Monika Baer, Friedrich Kunath & John Baldessari: I place these artworks on top of a pedestal I built myself.

Here is what I was thinking when making this:

The reason for picking more than one artist was due to the fact that I wanted to pull from different concepts. In this way I want to attempt to make it apparent that although the work of these three artists is quite different it still holds similarities in their concepts. I am quite more interested in the process of their work and the things they are commenting on rather than the work itself. Frankly, I don't quite know if I like their work to begin with.

Both Monika and Baldessari started as painters but shortly after they were disappointed to see that it didn't account to anything more. Monika constantly works on the canvas and introduces motifs that attempt to go beyond what a painting will go. She makes gestures, such as cutting up the canvas and making you aware that there is another layer the canvas. In my work I also make gestures that attempt to comment on the canvas but quite differently. I nailed the four corners of a canvas and used it as a "stool" for the sculptural object to be placed above it. In a sense I made the canvas serve as an almost utilitarian object while also making it part of the artwork itself.

I made a similar gesture in my pedestal. Instead of painting it with white paint and have it nicely painted, I applied gesso and purposely left some of the wood to show. It reminds the viewer that the pedestal was also handmade; that perhaps the pedestal is part of the work and the work extends itself beyond.

As for the sculptural object, although I have made similar works prior to these, I've said that I don't quite know why I was making them or why I was making them this way.

The Shenanigans Continue...

I will come back to these Shenanigans but for now here is the rest of my documentation, hope you had fun back there on the first post...

The making of myWEIRD SCULPTURES (a look into some other things I was painting on):

Artist Statement:

“Draw what you see.” Those were the words of my art teacher. “I am drawing what I see.” I would reply. I had often argued just like James Abbot McNeill Whistler that “if a man who paints only what he sees before him were an artist, then the king of artists would be the photographer”. This led me to start questioning the significance of drawing what I saw, what was I really attempting to do, was I trying to recreate something that was already in existence and if so, why?

Instead I decided to take a different approach and began to make things without planning ahead. Soon enough, it was through the intuitive process that I was able to interpret the world around me. Whether it was through experiences, dreams, memories etc.

By creating a still life that consists of painted objects colliding with non-painted objects and I want to explore the creative process and different methodology behind the work. I attempt to look out for a relationship between the process of the work, how ideas are generated when making the work, the result of the work and how the resulting work is interpreted.

I want the viewer to question what they are looking at. Creating uncertainties for the viewer and also bringing about the question of: Why do we want to represent the world around us?

My Beloved Weird Sculptures

('My Collagesamblages')